These are the projections for the 1A East bracket for the 2023-24 NCHSAA boys basketball playoffs.
These projections are not official and can change when the official brackets are released by the N.C. High School Athletic Association. However, these projections are accurate as of the time stamp below.
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RPI changes as new data is entered into MaxPreps, meaning teams could fall in and out of the projections based on who has entered what games.
For more on the NCHSAA's playoff process, read Nick Stevens' column here.
1A East Boys Basketball Projection
Time of last update -- Friday, Feb. 16 at 3:24 p.m.
Note: Where there is a currently-unbreakable tie for an automatic bid, we are using RPI (which is how the NCHSAA breaks ties that cannot be done by head-to-head or "best win").
Conference champs are in bold. Conference champs who would not be seeded as conference champs if the playoffs began today are in bold italics.
Atlantic 6 1-seed: Ocracoke
Atlantic 6 2-seed: Hobgood Charter
Carolina 1-seed: North Duplin
Carolina 2-seed: Rosewood
Central Tar Heel 1-seed: Southern Wake Academy
Central Tar Heel 2-seed: Chatham Charter
*Coastal Plains 1-seed: Pamlico County
*Four Rivers 1-seed: Washington County
Four Rivers 2-seed: Bertie
*Mid-Carolina 1-seed: Chatham Central
*Super Six 1-seed: East Wake Academy
Tar-Roanoke 1-seed: Wilson Prep
Tar-Roanoke 2-seed: North Edgecombe
Tar-Roanoke 3-seed: Northampton County
Triangle North champ: Voyager
Triangle North 2-seed: Vance Charter
*Waccamaw 1-seed: West Columbus
*-Split conference with 2A schools — 1-seeds must have an overall win percentage of .500 or better to be seeded with the 1-seeds, or else be seeded with the 2s and wild-cards.
Last five in, first five out
28. Woods Charter
29. Falls Lake
30. River Mill
31. Henderson Collegiate
32. Warren County
1. Neuse Charter
2. Jones
3. Eno River
4. Perquimans
5. Northwest Halifax
Projected seeds, matchups
(1) Wilson Prep vs (32) Warren County
(16) Oxford Prep vs (17) Northside - Pinetown
(8) Ocracoke vs (25) Tarboro
(9) East Wake Academy vs (24) Bear Grass Charter
(5) Voyager vs (28) Woods Charter
(12) North Edgecombe vs (21) Weldon
(13) Northampton County vs (20) Chatham Charter
(4) West Columbus vs (29) Falls Lake
(3) Chatham Central vs (30) River Mill
(14) Southeast Halifax vs (19) Hobgood Charter
(6) Southern Wake Academy vs (27) Columbia
(11) Bertie vs (22) KIPP Pride
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(7) Pamlico County vs (26) Rosewood
(10) North Duplin vs (23) East Bladen
(15) Vance Charter vs (18) Lejeune
(2) Washington County vs (31) Henderson Collegiate
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